Hi, i'm Ellen. This is my website lfs.nl. I make presents.

Presents are interactive experiments, drawings or stories. They are usually made in a couple of hours, in the spur of the moment.

Notice of importance

January 2015 i stopped working on lfs.nl. You are welcome to look, read around, get lost and confused. I love this place.

I have started a new website, ellenpronk.com. It's a bit different. It is a blog. I make 5 posts a week, one on each weekday, published at 6 am. I haven't missed a post sofar, 13 June 2015! You are welcome to browse around there too.

A bit of history

I starting making things for the internet way back on July 1st 1997 with retrospective. Gif animations were my first love. I enjoyed building grids with them and develop een visual rhythm, like here at model 0.99b

After retrospective i worked on homebase for about a year. One of many mistakes, i tried to make a labyrinth of images and links and little games, where you randomy wander through. It is confused and frankly, quite annoying. Still, there are many pages in there i'm very fond of. Best place to start really is the index page.

May 14th 1999 i'm made my first present. I was showing my website at the Kunstvlaai in Amsterdam and was struggling with it. I decided to show realtime updates and made photographs during the day. The website was projected inside a large space at the Westergasfabriek. Here's is something i wrote about the start of presents and the time before that on July 1, 1999.

I never called this website a blog. The word wasn't invented yet when i started. But for a while between 2000 and 2004 i did maintain a blog called Besides. I keep it around because i don't like to throw away things really.

A complete list of all the presents.

Categories in presents are: gifanimations, javascript, flash, photography, text, digital drawing and the obligatory miscellaneous. Technique is a driving force, exploring a new world and seeing possibilities which were not possible before is very exciting.

Other bits and pieces of me

I do work on several other projects. In 2006 With 2 friends i set up bibbly-o-tek.com, a blog about Scritti Politti. After a few months we were joined by John Hyde, who maintained one of the best scritti resources online. Right now (2009) it's quiet, but i'm sure when there is news of a new album it'll be up and running again.